As the grand finale of this awesome
weekend interrogating the hauntological electronic voice, Mercy, Liverpool
Biennial and Deep Hedonia bring together three internationally significant new works made especially for the
festival.

Each work brings a uniquely
contemporary entry into the intersection of electronics, voice and
paranormal psychology. Expect ghostly soundscapes, otherworldly
screams, cuts, flows, and synaesthetics at this unique event.

Featuring

SCANNEROne of the foremost and singularly
recognisable sound artists of his generation, Scanner (aka Robin
Rimbaud) has won international admiration from amongst others, Bjork,
Aphex Twin and Stockhausen. With this new commission for Mercy and
Liverpool Biennial 2012, Scanner will present EVP recordings from a
theatre in Stockholm built in 1766 along with his trademark
intercepted phone conversations to create a survey of anticipation in
sound and words, things to come, but not fulfilled. The voice
emerges, found, processed, unwrapped, but lost. Throughout, Scanner
himself will act as The Host bringing in these voices and spirits to
an engaging soundscape.

"For Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner,
music is not an end point. Instead, it is part of a complex web of
activity that defines the democracy of the digital world." The Wire

IRIS GARRELFSDescribed as the Diamanda Galas of
Glitch, Iris' work suggests a kind of siphoning-off of sonic nerve
impulses, fragments of melody, rhythm and correlation floating around
in her body and brain. Using her voice as raw material, Iris his
transmutes the body into machine noises, choral works and pulverised
sound. For this new work, Iris will improvise a new composition based
on the theme and performance environment.

"granules of electroacoustic
babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human
expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing" the
Wire

STEVEN FOWLER AND BEN MORRISTwo artists at the forefront of the
avant garde in music and poetics return to Liverpool for this, their
third iteration of a collaborative work exploring the voice under the
pressure of violence, exhaustion and analogue processing. The work
will include dramatic physical elements along with the considerable
vocal and audio skills of this partnership.

Steven Fowler is one of the most
promising poetic voices of his generation, along with his work with
Mercy he has produced commissions for London Sinfonietta, Voiceworks,
It's Nice That and Tate"Punchy, lyrical, and
incandescently inventive, by turns surreal and disarmingly direct...
if Captain Beefheart had done San Quentin, the result might have
sounded something like this." Philip Terry